Peter Sagan is the big favourite for Saturday’s Milan-San Remo. While some riders are lucky to have one of the rare qualities needed to win the Italian Classic, Sagan seems to have all of them. He can go with any attacks on the Poggio and still win the sprint on the Via Roma if the race comes back together.
Sagan will again ride Milan-San Remo as world champion and is hoping to join the exclusive club of rainbow jersey wearers to have won La Classicissima on the Via Roma.
For most other riders, such expectation and pressure before the first Monument Classic of the season would weigh heavy on their shoulders and probably eat away at their ability to perform. Sagan seems able to shrug off the pressure as easily as he avoided the woman and her dog crossing the road in the final time trial at Tirreno-Adriatico.
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While other teams are wracking their brains on how to beat Sagan on Saturday, he is enjoying the final days before the race with his Bora-Hansgrohe teammates near Lake Garda. He will get to spend time with his wife Katarina and do some final training but he will not spend hours studying old race video, thinking about his rivals or worrying about his form.
“Thinking too much about cycling is one of the least problems I have,” Sagan quipped at the end of Tirreno-Adriatico as he shared his final thoughts on Milan-San Remo.
“I don’t feel that kind of pressure anymore. I have to be a favourite for every race, so after seven years I’m used to it,” he pointed out.
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